Getting More Out of Pages Have you ever wanted to learn how to create more than just a simple text document in Pages? Have you wanted to learn how to use some of the advanced features of Pages? Then these videos are for you! Depending on how much “software power” you need, Pages may be [...]Read Full Article →

An Apple Watch was recently added to my collection of tech gear. It was inevitable. When Apple announced the rose gold sport model, that’s all she wrote. It’s actually better than I expected. It can go two days between charges, probably because I have it set to display on touch, not wrist movement. Hey, I’m [...]Read Full Article →

I like knowing what the current temperature is outside. Sure I could go to a website and look or even look in the Notification Center. However, what if there was a way to check at a glance without even taking your hands off your keyboard/mouse or leaving the current application you’re in. There is! Weather [...]Read Full Article →

I spend a lot of time using InDesign…and I love it! I love working in InDesign because the creative possibilities are endless. It is never dull. As a software trainer there are a lot of features that I see users not using. The reasons vary, either users don’t know the features [...]Read Full Article →

Developers Are Taking Digital Reading To The Next Level As a once avid reader of paper books, the habit did not change, but evolved, once I decided to forgo a paper collection for a digital collection. With ePub, iBooks, PDFs, Zinio, Smithsonian, National Geographic and other great book, blog and magazine [...]Read Full Article →

Last week, Apple announced new versions of its iWork programs (Pages, Numbers, and Keynote). They have been completely re-written so as to be fully compatible with their iOS counterparts (which are also new). But to make all these programs use the same file format, Apple re-wrote them, and in [...]Read Full Article →

Sorry I’ve been remiss in my Wednesday articles lately. I’ve been pretty busy – not only is my day job working me a fair number of hours, but I work on the side to pick up some spare change. I have written and administer a few web sites, and I do editing and proofreading. I’m [...]Read Full Article →

By now you’ve heard that iOS 7 will be available on September 18th, a couple of days before the new iPhone 5C and 5S arrive. (Apple learned its lesson – one of the older updates came out the same day as new hardware, and their servers were overwhelmed.) I’m not going to tell you all [...]Read Full Article →

With the advent of the tornado season, and especially after the terrible disaster that occurred on Monday in Oklahoma, it’s important for everyone to keep up with the weather. Yes, that mundane subject that occasionally has us scurrying for cover. One of the best ways to protect you and your family is with a weather [...]Read Full Article →

Continuing my SSD saga from last week – I got my new 1 TB SSD and copied my internal Macintosh HD drive over to it with Super Duper!. I then shut down my MacPro so I could install the secondary eSATA card (I disconnected a drive from the existing card just to [...]Read Full Article →

Last week I was called out of town unexpectedly for a work emergency that required my presence at the home office (there are time when telecommuting just doesn’t work). I got the call Monday afternoon and early Tuesday I was on a plane. Fortunately, I has just that weekend started playing with a media server [...]Read Full Article →

It’s getting to that time of year again. It’s the time of year when you drag out that shoe box full of receipts, or start digging through desk and dresser drawers for those bank statements, credit card statements… you know the drill. Some of you take all of those bits of paper and just dump [...]Read Full Article →

MicroMat’s TechTool was probably the first repair utility I bought for my Mac Classic back in 1993 or 1994. It could fix disk problems that no other software could, and it saved my neck more than once. This was back when we were still backing up files to 800 k floppies. As time passed and [...]Read Full Article →

Apple makes a lot of things easy. However, when it comes to downloading and installing software from sites outside the Mac App Store, it’s not as straight forward as you would think it should be. This is largely due to a process that is not necessarily intuitive or straight forward. For example, some software you [...]Read Full Article →

Apple didn’t update the 17″ MacBook Pro when it updated its laptop line recently. I really need all that real estate – I can’t easily bounce between windows on a smaller screen. Yes, I’m spoiled. But with no speed bumps in the future for my now one-gen back “Early 2011” MBP, I started looking at [...]Read Full Article →

I decided to take the plunge and sign up for the new Adobe Creative Cloud service. I’ve been trying to decide if I should upgrade and just get the CS 6 software, or if I should try the Creative Cloud. If, like me, you already have version of one of the Creative Suites [...]Read Full Article →

Ok, I give up. I’ve finally decided to get on Skype, the the popular communication service. So why my change of heart? Microsoft. I stayed off of Skype in the past, because in reading the End User License Agreement (EULA – and yes, some people do read them!) it was very clear when Skype first [...]Read Full Article →

Microsoft recently has some trouble with a patch (14.2.1) for Microsoft Office 2011. Many people had no issue, but some had problems with their identities not converting. Still others had a problem where you were asked for your product key after the upgrade. Of course, that’s not a problem – if you haven’t misplaced your [...]Read Full Article →